Water supply

residents living below the poverty line. Once the home of the United States’ largest General Motors plant, Flint’s economy suffered a major blow when General Motors downsized during the 1980s. A low budget, contaminated water source, and outdated infrastructure have led to a water crisis in Flint, Michigan which is a danger to local residents in regards to public concerns for health, loss of confidence in government, and a larger deficit. Once General Motors downsized their plant in Flint,…

generated models, the depleted water supplies that are available for agricultural and municipal uses are caused by a major meteorological drought. Although a ridge that appears from the ocean in either in the mid-latitudes or the tropics causes the dry California winter, wet California winters happen during El Nino events or when there is a trough…

I am a 21-year-old graduating senior, majoring in General Science. I chose to change my major from Biological Sciences to General Science because it better suited the time frame of when I wanted to graduate. Upon graduation, I plan to pursue a graduate degree in a field other than Geology. Then, I plan to further my education and pursue a degree in the Master of Occupational Therapy. Occupational Therapy school requires a lot of biology courses, which explains why I chose Biological Sciences as…

restrict urban water use by twenty-five percent. It was no surprise to Californians after facing four years of drought. With the lack of rain and increasing temperatures, climate change for California is already here. There is a probability that climate change caused by humans and global warming had a vast effect of the drought in California. The state of California continues to suffer from a drought that continues to break historic…

developing countries barely have water access. With the access to clean water; education, health, hunger, and poverty rates within every community will improve tremendously. In developing countries, children miss days and days at a time away from school because they spend most of their day searching for water or they have become ill from water-borne disease. With access to clean water, children can spend more time in the classroom than outside searching for water miles away from their…

Water is constantly changing. According to Charles Fishman, the author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, he states, “Water is unpredictable. Water is fickle. But that is water’s nature. The fickleness, the variability, is itself predictable” (319). Fishman is explaining to the audience that no person truly understands water to its full extent. Most people only get to view one side of water and therefore, do not appreciate it for what it truly is. Water is much…

Water supply on earth is finite. The United Nation’s world water development report, Water for a Sustainable World (2015), illustrated the 55% increase of global water demand by 2050. Without effective countermeasures, the word will encounter a 40 percent shortage of water within two decades. In Canada, water waste is the potential trigger of water shortage. Despite the great abundance of reserved water, Canada has a fixed average precipitation around 537 millimeter per year, less than 1/3…

Imagine being stuck in the Outback for almost three months with limited food and water in temperatures of over 100 degrees fahrenheit. With deadly and dangerous scenarios like that it would be nearly impossible to survive. Well, Ricky Megee went through exactly that when he was in Australia for a trip in 2006. He was 35 years old when he went through the hardest task in his life. Using intelligence and determination, Ricky Megee survived through one of the hardest things a person could go…

contamination of the tap water in Flint, Michigan has become a national scandal as in 2014, state appointed emergency manager decided to switch from the Lake Huron supplied water to the highly corrosive and polluted water from the Flint River, without treatment to control the corrosion of the lead pipes (Olson and Fedinick). Citizens soon started to complain about dark coloured, foul tasting, smelly water that residents claim to cause rashes and hair loss. The high levels of lead found in water…

access to water and its multiple uses and functions. Out of the 1.09 billion children from the developing world, there are 400 million with no access to safe water. The lack of clean water can affect people in many different ways; for example, it has the ability to risk your health, decrease the opportunity to get an education, and pose agricultural growth. Almost half of all people in developing countries have suffered at a given amount of time from a health problem caused by unpurified water.…